TorrentFreak

JULY 28, 2021

Copyright Infringement Offenses. In the alternative, Ubisoft and Bungie suggest that the defendants can be held liable for inducing and contributing to the copyright-infringing acts of their customers when they deploy cheats that effectively create unauthorized derivative works. 1201(a)(2)).

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 20, 2025

Enforcing Criminal Remedies Against IP Infringement in India: A Long Road to Justice? In a recent order, a Mumbai Magistrate Court acquitted an accused in a copyright infringement case after 37 years! The plaintiff used the registered trademark Nayan Jyoti for their most popular product.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 28, 2021

1: Bungie & Ubisoft Sue Destiny 2 Cheatmakers Ring-1 For Copyright Infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the group is committing copyright infringement not only because they are making derivative works based upon their games, but because they are circumventing copyright protection tools.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

According to Getty Images, Stability copied Getty’s photographs with associated text and metadata to train its Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to generate computer-synthesized images in response to text prompts. According to Getty, this is clear copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 19, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Last summer, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. — A copy of U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed in September by Rockstar Games, the owners of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) franchise.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. Their copying is flagrant, but unlikely to be illegal.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Wowwee sells a line of dolls called “My Avastars,” which plaintiffs allege were “copied directly from Roblox’s Classic Avatars.” The court found copyright infringement adequately pled as to several figures, although substantial similarity was a “close issue.” This was enough survive the motion to dismiss.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Shoe on 23 September, 2024 (Delhi District Court) The plaintiff sought a permanent injunction against defendants for infringement and passing off. The plaintiff claimed to have used the trademark “POLO” since 1967. The Respondent, engaged in a similar business, applied for the trademark in 2023.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 31, 2025

is not particularly well known, but over a billion people are familiar with its trademarks. Just one of Aylo’s many subsidiaries, Licensing IP owns and controls many popular trademarks. These sites reportedly used Aylo’s copyrighted content without permission, as well as its trademarks, including MDH and MY DIRTY HOBBY.

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Copyright Lately

JULY 8, 2023

” Then in June, the Supreme Court decided a trademark dispute sparked by a poop-themed dog toy that resembles a Jack Daniel’s liquor bottle. But number 1 when it comes to number 2 is a new copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week over a jigsaw puzzle called “101 Pooping Puppies.”

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

2: Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claims Against AimJunkies ‘Insiders’ Can Continue. Bungie sued AimJunkies alleging that cheat software developed by AimJunkies infringed both the copyright and their trademarks related to the game Destiny 2.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Yes, there was a copyright infringement claim in the mix, based on Skiplagged’s use of American’s “flight symbol” logo. But that was a sideshow to the airline’s more substantial trademark claims and allegations of consumer confusion. It sought $94.4 Here, the jury sided with the airline, awarding $4.7

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

There are various laws in India that govern IPR and gaming laws, but the primary law are Patents Act, of 1970 , Trademark Act, of 1999 and Indian Contract Act, of 1872. Copyright also helps in protecting the narrative contents and preventing it from being copied. Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are dozens of recognizable brands in the illegal streaming market, all jostling for position in a chaotic market where trademarks are copied even more readily than movies or live TV streams. The end result is a stream of pirates prosecuted for copyright infringement or fraud repeatedly hitting the headlines.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2021

The website facilitated massive online copyright infringement of many popular Nintendo titles, according to the complaint filed at a California district court. million summary judgment against the RomUniverse operator , for infringing the game company’s copyrights and trademarks. RomUniverse’s Pro Se Defense.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 11, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits have been filed against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. In a complaint filed at a Seattle federal court last June, Bungie accused AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Copyright Questions.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 30, 2022

While running a VPN doesn’t equal copyright infringement, the movie companies accused the service of encouraging and facilitating piracy. ‘Popcorn-Time VPN’ The complaint mentioned a variety of examples where the defendants directly or indirectly referenced copyright-infringing activity.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 16, 2025

Highlights Finding the Real Burger King: Identical Marks & Prior Use in the Pune Eatery Case It has been 14 years since the Burger King trademark dispute began in India, still with no end in sight. The inclusion of copyright infringement in an anti-money laundering statute sounds a little strange, right?

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 29, 2024

In a lawsuit filed at a New York federal court in June, leading textbook publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Elsevier and McGraw Hill, accused Google of profiting from sales of infringing copies of their textbooks. The Complaint makes clear that these allegedly infringing acts occurred on third-party websites.”

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TorrentFreak

JULY 3, 2022

Over the past several years, a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. Bungie sued Aimjunkies last summer, accusing it of copyright and trademark infringement among other things. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While running a VPN is not copyright infringing, the movie companies accuse the service of encouraging and facilitating piracy. VPN-related Copyright Infringement. The complaint mentions a variety of other examples where the defendants directly or indirectly referenced copyright infringing activity.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

In particular, it explores why copyright of a meme’s underlying content does not matter in a normative sense. In this blog I argue that copyright protection of the content underlying memes does not matter because of the relative weakness of enforcement mechanisms for copyright infringement of this scale. 511, 523 (2012).

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Three years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing Destiny 2 cheat seller AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Bungie, on the other hand, argued that AimJunkies’ copyright-infringing activities were blatant and obvious.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 11, 2025

Interestingly, the civil suit has been disposed of by the Madras High Court, holding that there is no copyright infringement, and the proceedings in the criminal case have been stayed. The Court was of the opinion that Tamilnadan failed to prove copyright infringement. But it may not be copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Among other things, Judge Buchanan recommends awarding damages for trademark infringement, DMCA violations, contract breach, and willful copyright infringement against Popcorntime.app. Because of Defendant Doe’s willful infringement, the undersigned finds that Plaintiffs’ request for $3,150,000.00

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CoCal IP Law Institute

JUNE 3, 2021

Tattoo Copyright Infringement and Post-Brexit Trademark Considerations For our weekly SoCal IP Institute meeting on Monday, June 7, 2021, Chris Kopitzke will lead a discussion of the legal issues arising from unauthorized copying of a photograph for a tattoo and will highlight selected trademark responsibilities resulting from Brexit.

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 18, 2023

The Court found that Dstorage could be held liable for failing to remove illegal copies of Nintendo games hosted on 1fichier, based on notifications sent by rightsholders. The videogame company did not share the Court of Appeal’s decision and thus far we’ve been unable to obtain a copy.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 9, 2023

Million Default Judgment In the absence of a proper defense, United States District Judge Tana Lin assumed that Bungie’s copyright infringement claims were true. Copyright and Trademark Infringement Bungie allegations also included copyright infringement claims. million in compensation. .

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TorrentFreak

APRIL 28, 2022

Over the past several years a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits has targeted alleged cheaters and cheat makers. In a complaint filed at a Seattle federal court last June, Bungie accused AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. Court Dismisses Copyright Claims.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2021

Dmitry Karshtedt and Sean Pager, Volition and Intent in the Law of Direct Copyright Infringement Patent and © treat these areas very differently. Congress amended the statute to ensure that retransmissions of cable would be public performance; then the issues shifted to copying. What distinguishes that from a copy shop?]

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 14, 2023

Two years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. The original complaint didn’t provide sufficient evidence for a plausible claim that the ‘Destiny 2 Hacks’ infringed any copyrights, the Judge concluded.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 22, 2024

Three years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing AimJunkies of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. At the same time, Bungie continued its copyright and trademark claims. This arbitration award is still under appeal. Instead, a jury would have to decide.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 20, 2022

“All the reported websites copied our brand name ‘MP3 Juice’ without any authorization. We request immediate removal of all the infringing URLs from Google index and help us to protect our copyrights. However, a search for the respective trademarks in the register didn’t return any results.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 9, 2022

This company is operated by anti-piracy attorney Kerry Culpepper and owns the trademarks for “Popcorn Time”, “YTS” and “RARBG”, which VeePN allegedly misused as well. However, that did little to stop the infringing activity. Millions in Copyright and Trademark Damages.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 15, 2022

Two years later, the Stockholm Patent and Market Court found several people connected to the company guilty of copyright infringement and the unauthorized decoding of broadcast signals. The Court upheld several EU trademark infringement charges related to the rebroadcasting of certain TV channels.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, many a times, we witness these designs being copied or recreated. Copying designs as well as creating replicas of any sort which closely resemble the general composition or the original blueprint infringes the right of the creator. It prevents the unauthorized use of the design, logos, trademarks etc.

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